eggery

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noun

A place where eggs are deposited, produced, sold or kept.

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Meanings

nouneggery (plural eggeries)

plural eggeries

  1. A place where eggs are deposited, produced, sold or kept.

    A buffle headed sub-chanter having been found guilty of absconsion from his butlership scuddled hastily with colubrine steps into the seclusion of his battish eggery.

    1892 May 26, The W.A. Record, Perth, page 4, column 4
  2. A nest of eggs.

Origin

From egg + -ery.

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APA

eggery. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 3, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/eggery

MLA

“eggery.” WatkinsX Dictionary, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/eggery. Accessed November 3, 2026.

Chicago

WatkinsX Dictionary, s.v. “eggery,” accessed November 3, 2026, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/eggery.

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